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Compiling Windows on DOS? (Developers)

posted by rr Homepage E-mail, Berlin, Germany, 13.02.2021, 15:07

> > > Why on earth would you want to recompile Windows 2003?
> >
> > Because some people still (want/need/like)use older Windows for whatever
> > reason and they want to do some specific modifications to improve/bugfix
> > it. One example is ACPI.SYS driver has problem running on newer MBs with
> > new ACPI (no legal way to run old Win on such systems) so some people
> > modified it to make it working - by binary hack and later by recompiling
> > from sources, so God bless the leakers :)
>
> That is *exactly* the point! To fix Microsoft's bugs, short-sightedness,
> etc, to *improve* that longevity and usability of these so-called
> "obsolete" operating systems, extending to the range of modern systems.
Recompiling and fixing a leaked source code, doesn't make it "more legal", although your goals are noble.
But I guess, you know that ...

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